1. Select an educational issue that interests you, such as television watching or charter schools. List at least four of your beliefs about this phenomenon. Try to identify the sources of each of these beliefs.
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2. Find a report of an educational research in an article in a daily newspaper. What were the major findings? How much evidence is given about the methods the researcher used? What additional design features might have helped to improve the study’s validity?
